{"id":9707,"date":"2017-02-06T14:25:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T13:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9707"},"modified":"2017-06-08T14:43:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T13:43:18","slug":"ojaide-prof-tanure","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ojaide-prof-tanure\/","title":{"rendered":"OJAIDE, Prof. Tanure"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, MA, Ph.D; poet, university teacher; Born: April 24, 1948; Hometown: Okpara Inland; State of Origin: Delta; Married: Anne Nomuoja, 1976; No of Children: three Sons, two daughters;<br \/>\nEDUCATION: St. George&#8217;s College, Obinomba, 1961- 65; Federal Government College, Warri, 1966-67; University of Ibadan, 1968-71; Syracuse University, USA, 1978-81.<br \/>\nCAREER: Lecturer, Federal Government College, Warri; Petroleum Training Institute Effurun, 1973-77; Lecturer, English, University of Maiduguri, 1973-85; Snr. Lecturer, University of Maiduguri, 1985; Editor-in-Chief, Liwuram (Journal of the Humanities), University of Maiduguri, 1984-86; Co ordinator, Postgraduate Programmes, Department of English, University of Maiduguri; former chairman Association of Nigerian Authors Borno State Branch; mm: African Literature Association, USA; Participant, International Writing Programme, University of Iowa, USA, 1985; Participant, International Poetry Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1988. awards: Runner-up, Association of Nigerian Authors&#8217; poetry prize, 1986; African Regional winner. Commonwealth poetry prize, 1987; winner, All-Africa Okigbo prize for poetry, 1988; Joint-winner, Association of Nigerian Authors&#8217; Poetry prize, 1988; Winner, All Africa Christopher Okigbo Prize for Literature, 1997.<br \/>\nPublication: Children of Iroko and other poems, Greenfield Review Press, New York 1973; co-author, Yono Urhobo: Obe Rerha, MacMillan, Ibadan, 1981; Labyrinths of The Delta, Greenfield Review Press, New York, 1986; The Eagles Vision Lotus Press, Detroit, 1987; Sovereign Body, Panther Creek Press Spring, Texas, 2005; Great Boys: An African Childhood; including numerous articles and poems in national and international learned journals; hob: table tennis, travelling; off: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Afro-American and African Studies, Charlotte, North Carolina, 28223, USA. Official Address: Department of English, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Bomo State; Telephone: 076-232-537 extension 195; Home: R25, Staff Quarters, University of Maidugari, Maiduguri, Borno State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9707","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9713,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9707\/revisions\/9713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9707"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}